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DeCSS (the dvd region decoding software) has been declared NOT to be illegal in Norway, where it was written, and the author has been found not guilty of the charges the MPAA convinced the norwegian justice department to bring against him.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/12/22/dvd.piracy.reut/index.html

So goes a good deed in a weary world, to quote Mr Wonka.